_ 371 _ needs of his soul. He delivered up his soul after crossing the bar, at five o’clock on a Sunday morning in December 1515, at the age of sixty-three years. Until the moment of his expiry he demonstrated perfect reason, both in his speech and his gestures, and showed that he was ready to be received by God. He ordered that the Passion of Christ, to which he was very devoted, be read to him. On the same day he was taken from the ship on a bier covered with brocade, with pillows for his head, his body dressed in the white habit of the order of Santiago, of which he was a Commander, with all the insignia of the knights of the order. Around his neck was a velvet robe, and on his head, over a golden net, was a velvet hood; his eyes were half-open, but without the unseemliness which death brings. Thus, even in death, everyone regarded him with the respect and reverence which they had accorded him in life. His body was brought ashore, where the Captain of the city, Dom Guterre Monroy awaited him together with all the gentlemen of rank and the people of the city. The body was placed under a canopy, which hid it from sight. So great was the weeping of all present that the Friars of St. Francis and the priests could not immediately compend his soul to God.
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